I need to read in some iCalendar files. I would like to read in the data and dates encoded according to the arbitrary time zone information in the iCalendar files and then be able to reinterpret the dates according to the regular DateTime::TimeZone modules.
I can either do this the quick and dirty way (which is probably where I'll start anyway) and just read the dates in and do a quick conversion to UTC using the time zone information in the iCalendar file. Once read in, I can then convert the time zones via DateTime::TimeZone modules as needed. The main reason for my mail is to see if there would be any interest in a module that implements the DateTime::TimeZone information via the arbitrary/incomplete time zone information, like that which is stored in an iCalendar format (or any general source, it wouldn't need to be specific to iCalendar). This module would be similar DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetOnly, but would contain an arbitrary set of DateTime spans, which would then have offsets associated with them---also somewhat similar to the way the individual DateTime::TimeZone::* classes are built internally, but configurable per-instance. Does such a thing already exist and I'm not finding it? Is there interest in such a thing? I'd write it, but I'm not quite sure what to call it? DateTime::TimeZone::Arbitrary? DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetSpans? Suggestions? Cheers, Sterling
